http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12565
--- Comment #11 from Doug Kwan <dougkwan at google dot com> 2011-06-30 18:24:45 UTC --- The ARM linux kernel also uses NOLOAD. I added support for that in gold to link the kernel. -Doug On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Nick Clifton <ni...@redhat.com> writes: > >> I have been looking at PR 12565, and I have to say that I do not >> understand the linker's behaviour for NOLOAD sections on ELF based >> targets. What is the point of having a section that cannot be loaded >> and that does not have any contents ? >> >> Also, as far as I can see, this behaviour is not documented >> anywhere. Do you know of any applications that rely upon this feature >> ? > > If you look in the libgloss linker scripts you will see a bunch of uses > of NOLOAD. > > I'm not sure whether any of them are really necessary, but they are > certainly there. > > Ian > -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils